That's right.


The New Orleans Hornets want us all to forget about the checkered history of, you know, jobbing a Charlotte market years ago that had originally embraced the Association...and have decided that a renaming is in order.


To...


the PELICANS.

Let's ponder this for a moment.  


Hornets sting (as do the painful recollections of losing Chris Paul with the help of David Stern shenanigans).  Their longstanding logo reflects this aggressiveness:


On the other hand, while the pelican IS Louisiana's state bird, one looks like this:



Or this:



That imagery doesn't exactly scream "dominant handchecking" does it, guys?

Let's just say we can let the NHL off easily now for the "Mighty Ducks" after this one.  Yeah.

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